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Tugendhat QC appointed to the Bench

Privacy expert joins High Court

The members of Five Raymond Buildings are proud to announce that Michael Tugendhat QC has been appointed to the High Court Bench. He will be assigned to the Queen’s Bench Division and will sit as a judge of the Jury List. His first day as a Judge will be on 1 May 2003.

Mr Justice Tugendhat was educated at Gonville & Caius College Cambridge before being awarded the Henry Fellowship at Yale University Law School. He was called to the Bar of Inner Temple in 1969 before joining these Chambers. He was appointed a Queen’s Counsel in 1986, a Recorder of the Crown Court in 1994 and a Deputy High Court Judge in 1995. Since 2000 he has also sat as a Judge of the Courts of Appeal in Jersey and Guernsey.

With Iain Christie he was the founding author of The Law of Privacy and the Media (2002, Oxford University Press) and was recognised as the leading practitioner in this nascent area of the law. Most recently he acted for Michael Douglas, Catherine Zeta-Jones and OK! Magazine in their action against Hello! Magazine. Other of his leading cases at the bar included: